We were researching readership data across our channels yesterday and noticed something surprising.
This blog has now had more than 51 million views since it began 20 years ago.
Our YouTube channel has now had almost 49 million views.
Even my LinkedIn page had almost 90,000 reads last week.
Put it all together, and I have, without a doubt, now had more than 100 million social media views, and that ignores totals for Twitter, Facebook, Substack, Mastodon and Bluesky that we post on regularly.
My thanks go to all of you who have contributed to these totals. I am genuinely very grateful.
As we approach the 20th anniversary of this blog, that feels like an appropriate measure of impact.
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I have to say, it certainly feels like it!
Excellent!
Is it possible to identify how many individuals that represents?
I have no idea for sure
It was one of my better decisions, about twenty years ago, to join this blog. I have learnt so much and contributed so little. Thank you for the experience and imparted knowledge.
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Brilliant! Well done Richard and family. Needed more than ever. Congratulations.
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More power to your elbow (and to the elbows of those who work with you). Your efforts are much appreciated and hopefully will cut through.
Craig
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It appears to me that one reason for these figures is that, little by little, the public is starting to listen and take on board your message. Last night I heard Jason Peck in his latest Disorder podcast make sympathetic observations when addressing a question about UK political instability. He did so when discussing the impact of the Reagan-Thatcher years on the dwindling of state capacity before observing “so the population has drawn the conclusion, wait a second, if the state could pay my salary during COVID and force everyone to stay inside, why can’t it X? And X might be about the migrants if you’re on the right, or it might be wealth inequality if you’re on the left. And I would argue the state can do those things, but it can’t do them without continuity.” It’s best to listen to the whole section of that podcast but it does, in my opinion, point to a growing belief in the arguments you have been advancing. He also casts doubt on the UK political obsession with the bond markets. Put simply, your message is beginning to cut through.
Thank you
Richard, I have already said I an earlier list that this Blog is the real PPE, because it delivers Politics, Philosophy and Economics in dynamic interpretation, with each of the 3 implying, and intersecting with the other 2, which I posited as quasi-Trinitarisn in operation.
Now another biblical reference springs to mind, that of Ecclesiastes 11:1, which states: “Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days
This is a metaphor for being generous with your resources, without expecting any return, which is how you have always run this Blog.
But the real miracle is how the bread cast returns in the form of an astonishing harvest of intelligent and knowledgeable responses from a host of well-informed and perceptive respondents.
This Blog really is an education, and my thanks to you, Richard, and the whole “Funding the Future” community. .
Thank you, Andrew
Let me know how you are, sometime.
Thank you so much for all this, we need more more more!
I often return to the blog for the comments. Say I read in the morning and returned twice in the day, would that count as 3 visits? Or are you measuring the email names?
Without communication nothing happens or gets done, in short it is everything. Without doubt your communication skills (and of course the message) are superb, long may it continue!. Unfortunately the media on the whole is owned and controlled by the enemies of care and equality (including the BBC and the “Guardian” [a misnomer if ever there was one]). Its the age old issue of how to find a way to get the message to all that require to hear the truth.
Thank you
I’m always proud to be a fellow member of the 1958 Club alongside some of the worlds most influential individuals:
Kate Bush, Toyah Wilcox, Linda Lusardi, Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna to name a few and. of course, towering head and shoulders above the rest of us, Richard Murphy and Nick Park.
I am not sure I tower over anyone….